3 students share an apartment and 2 of them study a lot but the third spends most his nights partying. The 2 studious housemates decide to pull a prank on him, and one night when he comes home they are waiting for him next to the bedroom door wearing white sheets. One of the friends says ‘welcome friend, I am Peter!’. The other says ‘welcome friend, I am Paul’. The drunk house mate looks at them and says ‘Colleagues! would you mind stepping aside? I am Lazarus!’

yeah, that doesn’t translate… in Dutch, the names refer to St peter and St Paul and both end in -us as well: Petrus and Paulus. Also, ‘being Lazarus’ means being very drunk.

I’m not arguing that AI won’t get better, I’m arguing that the exponential improvements in AI that op was expecting are mostly wishful thinking.

they could stick to old data only, but then how do you keep growing the dataset by the amounts that have been done recently? that is where a lot of the (diminishing) improvements the last years have come from.

and it is not at all clear how to apply reinforcement learning for more generic tasks like chatbots, without a clear scoring system like both chess and StarCraft have.

the problem is that ai’s are trained on programs that humans have written. At best the llm architectures it creates will be similar to the state of the art that humans have created at that point.

however, even more important than the architecture of an ai model is the training data that it is trained on. If we start including ai-generated programs in this data, we will quickly observe model collapse: performance of models tend to get worse as more ai-generated data is included in the training data.

rather than AIs generating ever smarter new AIs, the more likely result is that we can’t scrape new quality datasets as they’ve all been contaminated with llm-generated data that will only reduce model performance

why is it very likely to do that? we have no evidence to believe this is true at all and several decades of slow, plodding ai research that suggests real improvement comes incrementally like in other research areas.

to me, your suggestion sounds like the result of the logical leaps made by yudkovsky and the people on his forums

kiwis? what do New Zealanders have to do with it? I feel like something is flying very far over my head

using nushell is my little rebellion against POSIX tyranny

do you have an intolerance or something? as long as you build up your intake of fibre relatively slowly eating more of it (both soluble and insoluble) should help you be more regular, unless you have some condition of course

i find that I have significantly less problems with heartburn when I remember to eat enough fiber. eating more veggies, pulses, wholegrain bread and fruit helps me a lot

if I don’t use android or iOS, I can’t use my banking apps, pay with my phone, access government services as they require an app to sign in, etc. it’s just not doable anymore for me

oh boy, do I have some bad news for you about the stupid shit people believe

Apple just enabled sideloading in the EU to comply with the DMA. I highly doubt that android will be allowed to remove sideloading

didn’t apple just get forced to enable side loading in the EU due to the DMA?

using irc is near outcast level? well damn…

I’ve been dual booting for ages without any windows-caused issues. is it windows 11 specifically that messes with dual booting or did I accidentally work around it by installing Linux to a separate ssd

nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part

I feel like a strict reading of this rule would also put a lot of fighting games, shooters, horror games etc in the not approved category

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https://youtu.be/BuNEq7gHqF8

I’m not following, do you need the bitlocker key when Linux is on a separate disk? is there something extra you need to keep in mind compared to just running windows?

most of his comments I completely understand, but saying process manager ‘looks a bit low-rent’ tells me absolutely nothing other than that you personally don’t like the look.

also, complaining about not having a consistent way to install apps is a bit rich when coming from a desktop where the best way is still to just find the app website, download the installer and click through an inconsistent installer that might be trying to add ad- or spyware along with the app you want

thanks! will be trying them out this weekend